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FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

Sion H. Rogers, Colonel.
W. C. Lankford, Lieut.-Colonel.
Campbell T. Iredell, Captain, Co. C.

4. J.J. Thomas, Captain and A M
5. John H. Thorp, Captain, Co. — ;
6 Geo. W. Westray, ist Lieut., Co. A.

FORTY-SEVENTH KEGIMENT.

By JOHN H. THORP, Caprain Company A.

In March, 1862, amid the rush to arms of North Carolina
volunteers, the 1,200 men who made the aggregate of its ten
companies, organized the Forty-seventh North Carolina Reg-
iment,

As the companies were coming together, New Bern was
taken by the Federal General, Burnside, and those that had
arrived at Raleigh were sent, without guns, below Kinston
under Major Sion H. Rogers, to assist in staying the Federal
advance. These remained there a week or two, when they re-
turned to Raleigh, and with the other companies, now ar-
rived, completed their organization with Sion H. Rogers,
Colonel; George H. Faribault, Lieutenant-Colonel, and John
A. Graves, Major.

On 5 January, 1863, Rogers resigned to become Attorney-
General of the State, when Faribault became Colonel, Graves
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Archibald D. Crudup, Captain of
Company B, became Major. Graves was wounded and cap-
tured at Gettysburg 3 July, 1863, from which he died ; Cru-
dup became Lieutenant-Colonel March, 1864, and William
©. Lankford, Captain of Company F, Major at the same
time. Faribault and Crudup were wounded and the first re-
signed January, 1865, and the latter in August, 1864, where-
upon Lankford became Lieutenant-Colonel and continued the
only field officer. Hence, mainly by casualties in battle, the
regiment was scant of field officers during very much of its
severest trials, and frequently was without one. On such oc-
casions it was led through hard-fought battles by a Captain,
and some times by a Lieutenant. W. S. Lacy was Chaplain;
R. A. Patterson, first, and after him Franklin J. White, were
Surgeons; J. B. Winstead and Josiah C. Fowler, Assistant
Surgeons, of the regiment. Thomas C. Powell was Adju-

tant,